A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet

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The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine, perfume, food colouring etc. It is often cultivated as an ornamental from the tropics to the warm temperate zone, the cut flowers last well in water[

Excellent photos of over 1,100 species and cultivars with habits and cultivation details plus a few plant uses. Many species are too tender for outdoors in Britain though there are many that can be grown outside.

]. Open places, edges of open forests, open woodlands; from near sea level to 2,800 metres in southern China[

Excellent photos of over 1,100 species and cultivars with habits and cultivation details plus a few plant uses. Many species are too tender for outdoors in Britain though there are many that can be grown outside.

]. So long as the plant is well mulched it resprouts freely from the base if cut back by severe weather[

Excellent. Contains a very wide range of conventional and unconventional food plants (including tropical) and where they can be obtained (mainly N. American nurseries but also research institutes and a lot of other nurseries from around the world.

]. When large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and plant them out when large enough. Seedlings are inclined to damp off and so should be watered with care and kept well-ventilated[